Reclaiming heritage alternative imaginaries of memory in West Africa.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Walnut Creek Left coast 2007Description: 270 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 978-1-59874-307-4
  • 978-1-59874-308-1
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Contents:
Reconsidering heritage and memory / Mike Rowlands and Ferdinand de Jong -- 'Taking on a tradition' : African heritage and the testimony of memory / Beverley Butler -- Slave route projects : tracing the heritage of slavery in Ghana / Katharina Schramm -- Picturing the past : heritage, photography, and the politics of appearance in a Yoruba City / Peter Probst -- Entangled memories and parallel heritages in Mali / Michael Rowlands -- 'Enchanting town of Mud' : Djenné, a world heritage site in Mali / Charlotte Joy -- A masterpiece of masquerading : contradictions of conservation in intangible heritage / Ferdinand de Jong -- From a glorious past to the lands of origin : media consumption and changing narratives of cultural belonging in Mali / Dorothea Schulz -- Demystified memories : the politics of heritage in post-socialist Guinea / Ramon Sarró -- Palimpsest memoryscapes : materializing and mediating war and peace in Sierra Leone / Paul Basu.
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 118.075 ASE Available 3694650-10

Reconsidering heritage and memory / Mike Rowlands and Ferdinand de Jong -- 'Taking on a tradition' : African heritage and the testimony of memory / Beverley Butler -- Slave route projects : tracing the heritage of slavery in Ghana / Katharina Schramm -- Picturing the past : heritage, photography, and the politics of appearance in a Yoruba City / Peter Probst -- Entangled memories and parallel heritages in Mali / Michael Rowlands -- 'Enchanting town of Mud' : Djenné, a world heritage site in Mali / Charlotte Joy -- A masterpiece of masquerading : contradictions of conservation in intangible heritage / Ferdinand de Jong -- From a glorious past to the lands of origin : media consumption and changing narratives of cultural belonging in Mali / Dorothea Schulz -- Demystified memories : the politics of heritage in post-socialist Guinea / Ramon Sarró -- Palimpsest memoryscapes : materializing and mediating war and peace in Sierra Leone / Paul Basu.